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Enhanced ocean deoxygenation in the Bering Sea during MIS 11c

Abstract.

"Accelerated Arctic warming has raised concerns about future environmental conditions in the Bering Sea, one of the world's most productive marine ecosystems. Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 (424–374 ka), a period with orbital parameters similar to those of the current interglacial (Holocene), is thought to be a suitable analog to predict future marine environments. Here, we reconstruct paleoredox changes in the Bering Sea over the last 800 kyr using high-resolution U/Th ratios from four sites, which were sampled by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 323. [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct
Authors: Xuguang Feng et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111982

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The early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Jenkyns Event) in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys, north African margin...

Full title: "The early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Jenkyns Event) in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys, north African margin, and north European epicontinental seaway"

Abstract.

"The early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Jenkyns Event) was associated with major world-wide climatic changes with profound effects on the global carbon cycle. This review revisits the available literature covering the Jenkyns Event applying an updated common stratigraphic definition, allowing illustration of the development and evolution of anoxia in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct 
Authors: Gabriele Gambacorta et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104636

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Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas...

Full title: "Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach"

Abstract.

"Oxygen concentration in the ocean is vital for sustaining marine ecosystems. While the potential impacts of deoxygenation on modern oceans are hard to predict, lessons can be learned from better characterizing past geological intervals formed under a greenhouse climate. The greenhouse Cretaceous containing several oceanic anoxic events [...]".

 

Source: Wiley Online Library
Authors: Charlie Y. C. Zheng et al. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13169

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Fossil-Bearing Concretions of the Araripe Basin Accumulated During Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b

Abstract.

"Fossils from the Araripe Basin (northeastern Brazil) are known for their remarkable preservation of vertebrates and invertebrates, even including soft tissues. They occur in carbonate concretions within organic carbon-rich strata assigned to the Romualdo Formation. Here we present integrated stable isotope, elemental and microfossil records from the Sítio Sobradinho outcrop, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. Our results imply that black shales hosting fossil-bearing carbonate concretions within the lower Romualdo Formation were deposited during Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1b (Kilian sub-event). [...]".

 

Source: Wiley Online Library
Authors: Marlone H. H. Bom et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004736

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Butterfly effect of shallow-ocean deoxygenation on past marine biodiversity

Abstract.

"A geochemical study of an ancient mass-extinction event shows that only moderate expansion of oxygen-deficient waters along continental margins is needed to decimate marine biodiversity. This finding provides a stark warning of the possible consequences of human-driven ocean deoxygenation on life in Earth’s shallow oceans. [...]".

 

Source: Nature
Authors: Brian Kendall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01310-3

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Widespread marine euxinia along the western Yangtze Platform caused by oxygen minimum zone expansion during the Capitanian mass extinction

Abstract.

"The development of widespread marine anoxic and/or euxinic conditions has been proposed as a likely driver of the mid-Capitanian mass extinction. However, the driving mechanisms and spatiotemporal evolution of anoxia/euxinia remain poorly constrained. In order to decipher changes in marine redox conditions and their possible influence on the mid-Capitanian biotic crisis, we applied multiple geochemical indicators to three sections across a shelf-to-basin transect in the Middle Permian Kuhfeng and Lower Yinping formations of the Lower Yangtze Basin, South China. [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct 
Authors: Bolin Zhang et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104273

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Spatial pattern of marine oxygenation set by tectonic and ecological drivers over the Phanerozoic

Abstract.

"Marine redox conditions (that is, oxygen levels) impact a wide array of biogeochemical cycles, but the main controls of marine redox since the start of the Phanerozoic about 538 million years ago are not well established. Here we combine supervised machine learning with shale-hosted trace metal concentrations to reconstruct a near-continuous record of redox conditions in major marine depositional settings. We find synchronously opposite redox changes in upper ocean versus deep shelf and (semi-)restricted basin settings ('redox anticouples', nomen novum) in several multi-million-year intervals, which can be used to track the positions of oxygen-minimum zones and the primary locations of organic burial through time. [...]".

 

Source: Nature
Authors: Xiangli Wang et al. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01296-y

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Carbonate-hosted manganese deposits and ocean anoxia

Abstract.

"Late Devonian (ca. 360 Ma), Early Carboniferous (ca. 330 Ma), and Early Triassic (ca. 250 Ma) manganese deposits in the South China Block support an emerging view that some Mn carbonates form through direct synsedimentary (authigenic) precipitation. These Mn carbonates accumulated on distal shelves and are interbedded with lime mudstone and heterozoan carbonates that accumulated in coastal upwelling environments. Lithofacies, Ce anomalies combined with vanadium, uranium, and molybdenum enrichments indicate that the Mn carbonates were primarily precipitated under anoxic conditions. [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct 
Authors: Fangge Chen et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118385

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“Hypoxic” Silurian oceans suggest early animals thrived in a low-O2 world

Abstract.

"Atmospheric oxygen (O2) concentrations likely remained below modern levels until the Silurian–Devonian, as indicated by several recent studies. Yet, the background redox state of early Paleozoic oceans remains poorly constrained, hampering our understanding of the relationship between early animal evolution and O2. Here, we present a multi-proxy analysis of redox conditions in the Caledonian foreland basin to Baltica from the early to the mid-Silurian. [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct 
Authors: Emma R. Haxen et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118416

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Stratigraphic architecture of the Tethyan Cenomanian-Turonian succession and OAE2 in the Dokan Area, Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq

Abstract.

"This study provides a detailed examination of a condensed Cenomanian-Turonian (C-T) succession of two sections (Dokan Dam and Khalakan) in the Kurdistan Region, Northeastern Iraq, based on biostratigraphy (calcareous nannofossils and planktic foraminifera), carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry, and facies analysis. The C/T boundary in this region is characterized by a hiatus noticeable due to the absence of the Globigerinelloides benthonensis and Dicarinella hagni subzones and the lack of positive carbon isotope excursion (CIE) peak b during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2). [...]".

 

Source: Science Direct
Authors: Fadhil A. Lawa et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.105064

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